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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 218344, member: 56"]I remember there was a vending machine that dispensed those things. Who knows how it worked, but it was essentially some kind of typecaster. I think you set a dial(s?) to compose the text you wanted, and it would dispense one of those medals with the lettering you selected. I remember the shape so well.</p><p><br /></p><p>My recollection is that I got one of those medals with my name on it from one of those machines at a train station where we had gone to meet my grandparents, which would have been in the mid-1950s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 218344, member: 56"]I remember there was a vending machine that dispensed those things. Who knows how it worked, but it was essentially some kind of typecaster. I think you set a dial(s?) to compose the text you wanted, and it would dispense one of those medals with the lettering you selected. I remember the shape so well. My recollection is that I got one of those medals with my name on it from one of those machines at a train station where we had gone to meet my grandparents, which would have been in the mid-1950s.[/QUOTE]
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